We didn’t have any. The project manager set it at 3 story points.

Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.

Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.

Or a single magic mutation.

And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…

Let’s observe their reactions to a big slab of obsidian.

huh, I always assumed they were metal-clad objects with something inside

wikipedia tells me they are machines, but not what they're made of

Like birds, let's say? There have been some articles on HN about how crows can be so intelligent with such a small (absolute size) brain.

Evolution would design the alternative to be something slightly less capable than the minimum. /s

Really, the likelihood is that these mutations must have had an impact that far outweighs their space in the genome.

That’s how all our close competition got murdered by Homo Sapiens. Just significant difference in mental abilities.